How to install WAMP Server and getting started web development.

1. What is WAMP?
WAMP stands for Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP.
When it goes for Linux it is LAMP and MAMP for Mac.

2. Install WAMP server.

• go to download and select the package regarding your platform.
• http://www.wampserver.com/en/

• Run the downloaded exe file.
• if there's msvcr110.dll is missing message, you have to istall Visual C++ Redistributable Packages from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679.

3. Start up WAMP server.

• choose "start WampServer" from the "Start" menu; or run "wampmanager.exe".
• You can see WAMP Server icon from tray as below.

4. Start service.

• Left mouse buton click on WAMP Server icon.
• Select 'Start All Services'.
• Make sure if the WAMP Server icon is green.
• If 80 port is used by another process, the Apache server cannot be started.

• If the server is running properly, you can access to web pages.

          http://localhost/
          http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

5. Folder structures.

• bin : binaries for Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Multiful version can be installed.
• apps : server-side tools such as PhpMyAdmin, SQL Buddy and WebGrind.
• tools : client-side tools such as xdc(XDebug Client).
• www : web root
• logs : log files.
• alias : appache's alias configuration.

6. Helloworld app.
Create helloworld.php in www folder(web root).
Add this codes.

<?php echo 'Hello world!';?>

You can see the result at....
http://localhost/helloworld.php